Hugh Brady

Hugh Brady (29 July 1768-15 April 1851) was a US Army colonel who fought in the Northwest Indian War, War of 1812, and the Black Hawk War.

Biography
Hugh Brady was born in Standing Stone, Huntingdon County, Pennsylvania in 1768, the son of a colonel who was killed by Native Americans in 1779 during the American Revolutionary War. His paternal grandparents Hugh Brady and Hannah McCormick were Irish Protestant immigrants, as was his maternal grandfather James Quigley; his maternal grandmother Jeanette was a Scottish-American born in Cumberland County. Brady went on to serve in the US Army during the Northwest Indian War, serving under Anthony Wayne at the Battle of Fallen Timbers. During the War of 1812, he commanded a regiment at the Battle of Chippewa and the Battle of Lundy's Lane, where he was severely wounded. After 1822, he was stationed in Michigan, and he became commander of the Detroit garrison in 1828. He also commanded troops during the Black Hawk War of 1832, but he was stricken with dysentery and was therefore unable to participate in many of its actions. He was too old to fight in the Mexican-American War, and he died at the age of 82 when he was thrown from his carriage by his panicking horse in 1851.